The site will now help you find users with similar interests
Micro-blog style social network service Twitter has rolled out a new feature called 'Who To Follow', which basically suggests people worth following on the website. It's very difficult to find interesting and like minded folks from millions of Twitter users who have minimal or no profile information. Now, you ll be able to see Follow Suggestions on Twitter web page just like Facebook's 'People You May Know' feature.
The new Who To Follow feature shows up two users just below the user statistics on the Twitter web page. On the official Twitter blog, Twitter communications executive Carolyn Penner noted that the algorithms in this feature, built by our user relevance team, suggest people you don t currently follow that you may find interesting. Now these algorithms are said to consider several factors that also include people they follow and people you follow.
For instance, you love food and you're following loads of users who like food and tweet about food then similar folks will show up in the Suggestions list. You can also find worth following suggestions at the Find People page on Twitter website. If you want to hide any particular user from showing up in the suggestions list, click on the Hide option below the Follow button. Choose for yourself who is worth following in order to avoid unnecessary noise in your timeline.
Ideally, you should read a couple of tweets of the user you wish to follow and not click on follow button just because that person's username keeps showing up in your timeline. Also, we don't know what factors are being considered in the algorithms devised by user relevance team. Location will play another major role in these recommendations, it seems. This feature has been rolled out to everyone and those who haven't got it yet then you ll get it soon. Also, if you visit any other Twitter user's profile, you will still see suggestions of other similar users worth following there.
This new feature is currently limited to Twitter web only but soon, the API update will enable it on desktop and mobile clients too.
